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One must make a distinction however: when dragged into prominence by half poets, the result is not poetry, nor till the autocrats among us can be “literalists of the imagination”—above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, imaginary gardens with real toads in them, shall we have it.

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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Ella's Edge

It is the longest day of the year, for most of us. Summer Solstice is today. It is already sweltering, sauna hot at my house. You toads would love it! When you were a kid did you spend your days basking at the shore, beach? Did you ever write a message and tuck it in a bottle? Sending it adrift, hoping someone would find it. Did you hope they would see your profound message and maybe they would send you a note. Today, Toads we are jumping in the big pond. I grew up near the ocean. It was and still is my favorite place on earth to escape, to take time out to reflect, look for treasures, and dream. I would write names in the sand, draw, look for tiny bits of time worn sea glass and Sand dollars. Maybe you never did this... Today is your day... SOS means Save Our Ship, but your challenge Toads is to write a poem that is about saving one's soul. A life lesson, a view of your journey, you would love to share and tell the world. Your poem needs to be a SOS to the world. This is a treasured thought, not a soap box rant. Here is your chance! I want to thank the Police for their song. It inspired my prompt this week ;D

Ella, I loved the challenge topic and those pictures! I added a photo of one of my altered bottles to accompany my offering today. I had intended to write more, but this little work went in a different direction once I wrote the first line...

I found this a difficult challenge. Just couldn't think of what I would put in an anonymous bottle so decided to send it to myself and then got kind of stumped trying to think about how to do that. Oh well. It is there now. Thanks for the prompt as I needed one today.

I'll be back to write mine. Our AC unit died. When they did our roof then harpooned it with nails. Today was 93, tomorrow 96...I feel cooked!I wish I was on that beach finding a bottle or sending one... ;D

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